I Tried To Take 6,000 Selfies Like Kim K. — & Failed Miserably

I am not a selfie-taker. The last time I took one, it was to show off a new haircut. It wasn’t even a good selfie — upon showing it to my dad, he remarked, “That looks like a mugshot.”

It’s not that I don’t like selfies. I’m rather impressed by people who can take them. Turning the camera on oneself indicates a sort of open self-love that I wish I could have. Me and my self, we have a clandestine relationship. I love my self and she loves me, but we do it in secret, like Carrie and Mr. Big in the second season of Sex And The City.

What?! I was (and still am) pretty suspicious of these numbers — even with the technological boost of using a Burst Mode app, it's staggering. Kim Kardashian must spend more time taking selfies than not.

But it made me wonder if this kind of selfie saturation was key to being a good selfie-taker. Perhaps, if I could take 6,000 selfies in four days, maybe I'd become a selfie expert. So I decided to undertake this as a personal challenge: first, to see if it was actually possible to take that many selfies in such a short amount of time, and second, to see if I might actually start to be okay with taking photos of myself, and sharing them with the world.

Ahead, you'll find a photo-filled journey as I struggle to selfie like Kim Kardashian. Read on to find out exactly how many I was able to take in a four day period — and what I learned in the process.